Giving Mapbox users a better way to manage their styles and map resources

Role: Product Design Lead

Timeline: 6 months

Motivation

Mapbox Studio is a web-based map design tool and our customers had been asking for better organization for their maps styles for years. This wasn’t a flashy project, but it was critical and valuable to our customers to meet their expectations of an enterprise-grade tool.

Solution

We introduced folders for styles, along with improvements to the file-management experience and a clearer file resource model. Through research, we learned that different teams approached collaboration and organization in different ways and folders gave them the flexibility to mirror their real-world processes.

Impact

Of top 25 customers by revenue, 80% have full adoption of folders, with many customers having 100% adoption, meaning all of their styles are organized into folders.

Read more here: Fresh Updates to Mapbox Studio